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Article: New political science study results reported from C. Welch et al.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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"Comparison of the histories of three leading peasant organizations in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of Brazil-the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) from 1945 to 1964, the Confederacao Nacional de Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG) from 1964 to 1984, and the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) from 1984 to 2004-suggests that continuity is as important as change in understanding Brazilian peasant movements," investigators in Sao Paulo, Brazil report.
"The MST has been considered a ''new social movement'' in that it has eschewed partisan politics, incorporated families as members rather than just male heads of household, had a national scope ...